MONTEBELLO – The District Attorney’s public integrity division has opened an inquiry into two off the books bank accounts discovered by city officials recently.

The accounts with Banco Popular and Union Bank were discovered over the last few weeks when Banco Popular employees called officials and told them a dormant account containing city money would be returned to the state as unclaimed property.

The account contained nearly $240,000 in what appears to be U.S. Housing and Urban Development community development block grant dollars, according to officials and bank statements.

The second account, which came to light last week, holds about $5,000 but at one point contained nearly $1 million, officials said. The account appears to have been an investment account.

Deputy D.A. Dave Demerjian, who heads the public integrity division, said his office received a complaint Tuesday morning.

“Right now we’re reviewing it and I’m going to asking an investigator to do an initial inquiry to see if there’s any evidence of any type of crime,” Demerjian said.

A spokesman for state Controller John Chiang said Chiang’s office has also received complaints about Montebello’s “use of public funds.”